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(record review)BEDNJA-“Doline su ostale iza nas”
Finally! The debut album by Bednja is out! I wrote couple of months ago about them in action doing an awesome live set, now it is time to review their debut studio effort!
Some portals and magazines call the music of this band a mixture of hardcore and black metal or post black metal, but to me this band is black metal with capital B. The trio from Varazdin, Croatia area has a great amount of experience playing for years in various bands in this northern underground scene. I think that experience enriched them as musicians and this band is an amalgamation of their group experience and the end product is just awesome. Through it all Bednja kept their unique original style.
The album contains a sort of intro and five excellent songs of sorrow, hope, anguish, darkness and the struggle with the inner demons combined in melody, aggression, catchy guitar hooks and memorable calmer but somehow eerie atmospheric parts. The vocals are dual, one being harsh and raw, the other more screeching black metal voice. What makes me love this band even more are their great lyrics and also all of them are in Croatian language which is rare nowadays with the bands playing similar music. All of the songs are excellent, but if I must choose I will say “Ledena palača”(eng,Ice Palace) is my favourite song. This is for sure an album of the month.
10/10
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(record review)SPIDERCREW-“Sounds of Hatred”(WTF Records)
I discovered Spidercrew from Vienna, Austria, about 15 years ago after I listened a lot to their fellow countrymen Only Attitude Counts and Bust The Chain, whose members formed Spidercrew.
For those of you who dont know, Spidercrew is hardcore band from Vienna, being the true representative of Vienna style hardcore family. I used to listen to a lot of European hardcore bands like Rykers, Brightside, Only Attitude Counts, Right Direction….and still love those bands very much, some of them still playing, some are defunct.
With this record, Spidercrew are continuing where they left in 2014.with their last record, meaning 12 uncompromising pumping hardcore, with some faster energetic stuff and some mosh parts thrown in for good measure. What I love about this band is that in their song structures they rely heavily upon street and oi punk making their songs catchy unforgetable street hardcore anthems. Dual vocals fit in very nice, sounding a bit like AF/Madball and it is no problem for me, since I love both of these NYHC legends. In all, this record is the solid proof that European hardcore is alive and well and as long as there are bands as Spidercrew, hardcore will never die. Top songs: “Time to Prove”, “You Aint Lived It”, “We Dont Need You”.
8/10
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